I live in the Lake District and enjoy running on the fells. I also enjoy days out walking on the fells with my family. The children really enjoy the walks, but we have always been careful to do walks that are within their capabilities and have made sure we have never been out on the top of the fells in awful weather. Eastern Fells01 Fairfield Horseshoe 19.1km02 Glenridding Horseshoe 16.4km03 Deepdale Horseshoe 16.5km04 The Dodds 18.1km05 The Dunmail Loop 12.5km06 A Tour of Matterdale 16.1km

I wasn’t specifically setting out to doing the wainwrights but having bagged quite a few over the years it now seems like finishing them is a reasonable challenge, especially since I now fell run. Indeed, if you are really dedicated - you could easily complete all 59 Walk the Wainwrights walks in a single year - something very few people manage and an achievement to be truly proud of. Some of the routes are logical, following horseshoes or classic ridgeline linkups, others a bit contrived. I’m not sure Id do the coniston round without including wetherlam, or do the under skiddaw route which includes skiddaw little man but not the main summit. These are like this to prevent summits featuring twice, but this is where you’re likely to use the book for inspiration and then start to deviate from routes.I wish I’d had this book when I first started out! The trouble with not intending to bag wainwrights is the chances are there’s walks done which haven’t been efficient for gaining the most summits, however amazing the routes might have been. The featured routes include a round of the Scafells, and the Glenridding Horseshoe, taking in Helvellyn and Catstycam. What do you need to know before beginning your Wainwrights adventure? Former Wainwrights record holder Steve Birkinshaw pens a beginner’s guide to completing the Lake District’s most famous fells. Some will undoubtedly occasionally find the choice of what peaks fit with which route odd, perhaps because that's not they way they did a circuit previously. I know I was a bit like that sometimes but maybe that's why I now have isolated fells still to mop up. I really wish I'd had access to this guide before as I probably won't be left with these problem peaks. Still I've now got some great inspiration for new extended valley rounds, instead of just bagging these missed summits. Walk the Wainwrights in 59 Walks - The huge cairn on Bleaberry Fell in the Lake District Central Fells

Karen and Dan Parker's 'Peak Bagging Wainwrights' provides clear, concise route descriptions with brilliant accompanying maps, route profile and timing table (plus transport, parking and refreshment stop advice) for each of their 45 selected routes, which as they say have been 'designed to complete all 214 of Wainwright's Lake District Fells in the most efficient way'. Central Fells14 The Langdale Pikes 11.6km15 Above Thirlmere 21.4km16 Grasmere Common 17.2km17 Stonethwaite Fells 17.9kmWe also have available a series of Seven Area Maps showing the locations of all 214 Wainwright fells with an outline of the 59 Walk the Wainwrights walks. Southern Fells18 The Coniston Fells 17.8km19 Langdale West 17.5km20 The Scafells 13.1km21 Langdale South 13.8km22 Borrowdale Fells 16.3km23 Hardknott Round 17.6km24 Encircling Elter Water 20.0km25 Tilberthwaite Round 13.6km26 Above & Below Wasdale Screes 17.1km Blencathra is obviously a very popular hill,” Dan says. “It's very accessible from the motorway, so a lot of people stop there en route to somewhere else, or go there because it's easy to get to. But it's also got so much variety. There's the standard five tongues leading off it, each of which you can go up, and there's the excitement of Sharp Edge and Hall's Fell. There's a bit of scrambling, too. Then there's the sort of northern routes; with a mix of smooth and bobbly terrain." Like the Munros in Scotland, bagging all the Wainwrights has become a popular and significant challenge for walkers and runners, often taking many years in fits and starts because of the absence of a clear plan for how to link them together.